100 stunning books for long winter evenings

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker has compiled for you a list of good fiction books, when reading which you can fall out of reality for a couple of hours.

The list consists of books of different genres and different sizes. Choose a piece based on your mood and the amount of free time. For convenience, the list is divided into several categories.

Books that will help you feel the festive atmosphere

To create a magical mood imbued with the spirit of the holiday.

1. Charles Dickens. "Christmas Carol" (buy on Litres.ru →).

2. Fannie Flagg. "Christmas and the Red Cardinal".

3. Christmas stories by foreign writers (buy at Litres.ru →).

4. Christmas stories by Russian writers (buy at Litres.ru →).

5. John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Miracle. "Let it Snow" (buy on Litres.ru →).

6. Agatha Christie. "Christmas of Hercule Poirot" (buy at Litres.ru →).

7. Terry Pratchett. "Santa Hryakus" (buy on Litres.ru →).

8. Rosamund Pilcher. "On Christmas Eve".

9. Richard Paul Evans. "Christmas box".

10. Susan Wojciechowski. "Mr. Toomey's Christmas Miracle."

11. Yustein Gorder. "Christmas Mystery" (buy at Litres.ru →).

12. Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen, Amy Newmark. “Chicken broth for the soul. 101 Christmas Stories”(buy at Litres.ru →).

13. Laura Lockington. "Christmas cake".

14. Maeve Binchy. "A Christmas gift".

15. Leah Fleming. "Children of Winter" (buy on Litres.ru →).

16. Michael Ende. "Magic Punch".

17. Hans Christian Andersen. Fairy tales (buy on Litres.ru →).

18. Holm Van Zaichik. “Judge Dee's Case” (buy on Litres.ru →).

19. John Ronald Ruel Tolkien. "Letters from a Christmas grandfather."

20. Glenn Beck, Nicole Baart. "Snow angel".

Books that are read in one breath

Small stories for one evening, from which it is simply impossible to tear yourself away without reading to the end.

21. Neil Gaiman. "Ocean at the end of the road" (buy at Litres.ru →).

22. Markus Zusak. "The Book Thief" (buy on Litres.ru →).

23. Stephen Chbosky. “It's good to be quiet” (buy on Litres.ru →).

24. Stefan Zweig. "Letter from a Stranger" (buy at Litres.ru →).

25. Lemony Snicket. "Bad start."

26. Mitch Albom. "Keeper of time" (buy on Litres.ru →).

27. Cormac McCarthy. "Road" (buy on Litres.ru →).

28. Julian Barnes. "Presentiment of the End" (buy on Litres.ru →).

29. John Boyne. "Boy in striped pajamas" (buy at Litres.ru →).

30. John Steinbeck. "About mice and people" (buy on Litres.ru →).

31. Nicholas Sparks. "Diary of Memory" (buy on Litres.ru →).

32. Angela Nanetti. "My grandfather was a cherry."

33. Daniel Keyes. "Flowers for Algernon" (buy at Litres.ru →).

34. Fredrik Backman. "Uwe's Second Life" (buy on Litres.ru →).

35. Joe Duntorn. "Submarine".

Monumental novels that you immerse yourself in

To live a whole little life with the heroes of the book, while outside the window there is cold and bad weather.

36. Mariam Petrosyan. "A house in which …" (buy on Litres.ru →).

37. Jonathan Franzen. "Sinlessness" (buy on Litres.ru →).

38. Chania Yanagihara. "Little Life" (buy on Litres.ru →).

39. Donna Tartt. "Secret History" (buy on Litres.ru →).

40. Archibald Cronin. "Brody Castle" (buy on Litres.ru →).

41. Antonia Bayette. "Possess" (buy on Litres.ru →).

42. Eleanor Cutton. "Luminaries" (buy on Litres.ru →).

43. Ken Follett. "Pillars of the Earth" (buy on Litres.ru →).

44. Gregory David Roberts. "Shantaram" (buy on Litres.ru →).

45. Haruki Murakami. The Chronicles of the Clockwork Bird (buy on Litres.ru →).

46. China Mieville. "Station of Lost Dreams" (buy at Litres.ru →).

47. Umberto Eco. "Foucault's Pendulum" (buy at Litres.ru →).

48. Salman Rushdie. "Children of Midnight".

49. Jaume Cabre. “I Confess” (buy on Litres.ru →).

50. Philip Mayer. "Son" (buy on Litres.ru →).

51. Michelle Faber. "The Book of Strange New Things" (buy at Litres.ru →).

52. Suzanne Clarke. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (buy at Litres.ru →).

53. Stephen King. "11/22/63" (buy at Litres.ru →).

54. John Steinbeck. "East of Eden" (buy on Litres.ru →).

55. David Mitchell. "Cloud Atlas" (buy at Litres.ru →).

Antidepressant books to help beat the winter blues

After them, you want to smile for a long time and give warmth to those around you.

56. David Fonkinos. "Tenderness".

57. Joan Harris. "Blackberry Wine".

58. Yann Martel. Life of Pi (buy on Litres.ru →).

59. Khaled Hosseini. "Running with the Wind" (buy on Litres.ru →).

60. Sergey Dovlatov. "Our" (buy on Litres.ru →).

61. Ray Bradbury. "Cure for melancholy" (buy on Litres.ru →).

62. Helen Fielding. "Bridget Jones's Diary" (buy on Litres.ru →).

63. Pelm Granville Woodhouse. "Let's take a hit, Jeeves!" (buy on Litres.ru →).

64. Jerome K. Jerome. “Three men in a boat, not counting a dog” (buy on Litres.ru →).

65. Douglas Adams. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Fascinating books that will remain in your memory for a long time

Dashingly twisted plots, unexpected endings and memorable heroes.

66. Diana Setterfield. "The Thirteenth Tale" (buy at Litres.ru →).

67. Carlos Ruiz Safon. "Shadow of the Wind".

68. Ann Tyler. "Spool of blue thread" (buy at Litres.ru →).

69. John Irving. "The world through the eyes of Garp" (buy on Litres.ru →).

70. Jennifer Egan. "Time laughs last."

71. Jonathan Tropper. “Then Live Yourself” (buy on Litres.ru →).

72. Sarah Winman. “When God Was a Rabbit” (buy on Litres.ru →).

73. Graham Joyce. “Where the magic ends” (buy on Litres.ru →).

74. Emily Keith Johnston. "Tales of a Thousand Nights" (buy at Litres.ru →).

75. Richard Adams. "Inhabitants of the hills".

76. Elizabeth Stout. Olivia Kitteridge (buy on Litres.ru →).

77. Peter Ackroyd. Dr. Dee's House.

78. Giorgio Falletti. "I'm killing".

79. Scarlett Thomas. "Obsession of Lumas".

80. Ruth Ozeki. "My fish will live."

81. John Boyne. “Riot on the Bounty” (buy on Litres.ru →).

82. Louise Walters. "Mrs. Sinclair's suitcase" (buy on Litres.ru →).

83. Karen Lee Street. Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster.

84. Ian Banks. "Steps on glass" (buy on Litres.ru →).

85. Evelyn Waugh. "Return to Brideshead" (buy on Litres.ru →).

Books imbued with a cold winter atmosphere

Snow books, which are especially pleasant to read while sitting at home in a warm place.

86. Peter Høeg. "Smilla and her sense of snow."

87. Jessica Day George. "The sun and the moon, ice and snow" (buy on Litres.ru →).

88. Maria Parr. "Tonya Glimmerdal" (buy on Litres.ru →).

89. Camilla Lackburgh. The Ice Princess.

90. Maigull Axelsson. "Ice and water, water and ice".

91. Matthias Malzieu. "Mechanics of the Heart".

92. Yu Nesbo. "Snowman" (buy on Litres.ru →).

93. Herbjörg Vassmu. "A hundred years".

94. Steph Penny. "The Tenderness of Wolves."

95. David Guterson. "Snow on the cedars".

96. Graham Billing. "Alone in Antarctica".

97. Michael Cunningham. "The Snow Queen" (buy on Litres.ru →).

98. Alistair McLean. "There is no end to the night."

99. Neil Gaiman. "Odd and the Ice Giants" (buy on Litres.ru →).

100. Guzel Yakhina. "Zuleikha opens her eyes" (buy on Litres.ru →).